Why duplicating styles for Button in hybrid template?

[Binetri]

Why duplicating styles for Button in hybrid template?

[TedGoas]

One is for the actual link (<a href>) and one is for the <table> surrounding it. Some email clients don't allow us to apply box-model styles to an inline element like <a>, so we wrap it in a table to give it the appearance of a button even if the whole rectangle isn't clickable. Does that make sense?

[Binetri]

Thanks for the clarification, Ted.
It seems to me that if part of the button is not pressed, then it is confusing. I tested on a small number of available devices and did not find where duplicate styles for the tag td could be useful, since tag a already has a padding: 13px 17px;.

[TedGoas]

Which email clients did you test? Were some Windows Outlooks clients among them?

[Binetri]

I have tested: Thunderbird on PC; Gmail in Google Chrome on PC; Gmail app on Andriod; Mail.ru in Google Chrome on PC and Android; Mail.ru app on andriod. Unfortunately, none of my friends use Windows Outlook.
You can show a screenshot of the Windows Outlook what happens if you remove class and style attributes from td tag?

[TedGoas]

This is what happens in desktop Outlook and Office 365 on Windows when we remove the styles from the parent <td>:

[Binetri]

In Outlook and Office 365 at "No styles on td" the border is drawn at the distance specified in the padding: 13px 17px; of <a>, and the background fill is only based on the size of the text? Am I getting it right? Inconceivable...

[TedGoas]

Yes, unfortunately you're reading that right :/

[Binetri]

Thanks a lot, Ted! According to your observations, the online version of the Outlook has the same problems as the desktop version?

[TedGoas]

I don't believe Outlook.com has the same problems. The Outlook mobile apps should be fine too. It's basically the email clients that use MS Word on Windows to render email that have this problem.

[Binetri]

Does Windows Mail have the same problems as the desktop Outlook? Please advise how legally test templates without buying a desktop Outlook.

[TedGoas]

I've been testing using Email on Acid to preview these in email clients. There's also Litmus. They're not free, but you can trial them for free to test this on your end.

[Binetri]

Thanks, Ted. The issue can be closed.